Golf

7:32 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Bernhard Langer matched Hale Irwin‘s PGA Tour Champions victory record of 45 on Sunday, winning the Chubb Classic for the fifth time. The 65-year-old Langer matched his age with a closing 7-under 65 for a three-stroke victory over Steve Stricker and Padraig Harrington. “It’s extremely special because

Feb 19, 2023 LOS ANGELES — Playing in his first official PGA Tour event in more than seven months, Tiger Woods seemed to run out of gas in the final round of the Genesis Invitational on Sunday. After electrifying fans at the Riviera Country Club with a 4-under 67 in the third round, Woods looked

12:28 PM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Lydia Ko began the new year the same way she ended 2022, with a big win and a big check as she closed with a 4-under 68 to win the Aramco Saudi Ladies International. Ko, the No. 1 player in women’s golf, held

9:11 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — When the idea of a PGA Tour-designated event first originated, it might have been difficult to dream up a better reality than the one that has played out through three days at the Genesis Invitational. With 23 of the top 25 players in the world in attendance,

8:09 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Bernhard Langer remained in position to tie Hale Irwin‘s PGA Tour Champions victory record of 45, shooting a 2-under 70 on Saturday to take a 1-stroke lead into the final round of the Chubb Classic. The 65-year-old Langer, the winner last year, had a 10-under 134 total

11:36 AM ET Two more PGA Tour members and one of the best players on the DP World Tour are joining the LIV Golf League, sources told ESPN on Saturday. DP World Tour star Thomas Pieters, ranked No. 34 in the Official World Golf Ranking, and past PGA Tour winners Danny Lee and Brendan Steele

9:30 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti LOS ANGELES — After dazzling the crowd at Riviera Country Club on Thursday with three straight birdies in his final three holes to shoot 2-under

10:02 PM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Max Homa in the lead at his hometown PGA Tour event used to give him chills. Now he’s playing so well it almost feels normal. Homa, a winner last month down the coast at Torrey Pines, ran off three birdies around the turn at Riviera Country

1:34 PM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — John Paramor, the mustachioed European tour rules official whose career spanned six decades, has died after a cancer diagnosis. He was 67. The European tour confirmed the death of Paramor, who retired in 2020 as chief referee. He had officiated at dozens of major championships over

9:15 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — The walk to the Riviera Country Club clubhouse from the 18th green is a steep one. But any pain Tiger Woods might have felt in his right ankle seemed soothed by the smile that spread across his face as the crowd that filled the hole’s surrounding grass

2:48 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods played 16 holes and walked 18 in the Genesis Invitational Pro-Am Wednesday morning in his first public round of golf since last December’s PNC Championship. Woods, who will play with Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy in the first two rounds of the tournament starting Thursday,

8:00 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods will tee it up at the Genesis Invitational on Thursday (3:04 p.m. ET, ESPN+) in his first official PGA Tour

5:14 PM ET LOS ANGELES — As the PGA Tour continues to rebuild itself during its ongoing battle with the LIV Golf League for the best players in the world, Rory McIlroy says he believes the tour should look at another professional sports league, the NBA, as a model for growth. McIlroy, speaking to reporters

12:51 PM ET Mito Pereira, who last year squandered a chance to become the first man from Chile to win a major championship and the first PGA Tour rookie to win one in 11 years, has officially joined the LIV Golf League. Pereira, 27, and Sebastian Munoz, another PGA Tour member, were among four players

Feb 15, 2023 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s still weird for Joel Dahmen to say he’s on a Netflix series. He likes to think he’s a normal guy, and that he and his wife, Lona, are just a normal couple with a normal family. By some measure, they may be. They do have a 3-week-old son,

4:30 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods walked back into the epicenter of the golf world Tuesday, just days after he announced he would be playing in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. He discussed many topics, including his health, the way he approaches playing competitive golf at this stage of

3:47 PM ET PALISADES, Calif. — Tiger Woods said he’s still having problems with his right ankle and dealing with plantar fasciitis in his right foot but insists he wouldn’t be playing in this week’s Genesis Invitational if he didn’t think he could contend or even win. Woods, 47, will be making his first start

7:00 AM ET Devin Gordon STREAKING IS WRONG — let’s be clear about that up front. It’s boorish, infantile, and it always ends badly. That being said, sometimes a legend comes along who pulls off a marathon streak so improbable, so filled with performative flourishes and so in keeping with the whole sloshy drunken gestalt